HIST 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Betty Friedan, Housewife, Manifest And Latent Functions And Dysfunctions
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A healthy society was a stable society. According to theorists, prostitution is the world"s oldest career. Prostitution is according to some, more accurately, the world"s oldest tension reducer. Man always driven to look for mates/sexual lust: if the man was always leaving, that would cause the family to be dysfunctional. Between the 1920s and 1960s, people"s thinking about sex had changed: we learned about this pre-midterm 1. Divorce rate began to rise (in 60s?) and threatened social stability. The latent function of prostitution protected the emotions of everyone. The swinging revolution : men and women would do it. 50% of married men and 26% of all married women had extra-marital affairs (1960s) House wife is almost always a middle class woman with a european heritage. In 1960, betty freidan launched the idea of feminism: the feminine mystique (1964) Had collected survey material to try and understand what is going on with.